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The Flash: Survival of the Fastest
Chapter 29: Warning
March 12 2036
Central City
In a neighborhood in the suburbs of Central City there was a quaint house. It was a quaint little house, nearly identical to the ones surrounding it. Yet no one in this neighborhood knew the truth about who lived in that house. All they knew was that the house was owned by a kind young couple that predominantly kept to themselves. The Hearts lived here, Henry and Catherine Heart. Though to the rest of the world they were more well known by their alternate personas, Savitar and Killer Frost, two of the most wanted Meta-Humans this side of the Missouri River.
Savitar, stood in the doorway to the play room and watched his wife and daughter from behind. Savitar even allowed a smile to creep across his face.
Eight years after losing their son, Savitar and Killer Frost were about to lose hope in finding him when they learned about the pregnancy. The revelation that Killer Frost was expecting another child came as a shock to both the God of Speed and his wife as neither of them wanted to go through the horrendous experience of losing their child again. That was four years ago.
Despite their 'night jobs' the duo managed to keep the pregnancy a secret from everyone. And on May 14 2032 Samantha Nora Heart was born.
"DADDY!" The little girl cried out happily when she noticed him. "You're home."
"Of course." He said crouching down to his daughter's level. "I always come back to you and your mother."
"Welcome home." Killer Frost said with a smile tugging her lips before she gave her husband a kiss.
"How's my little princess doing?" Savitar asked his daughter Samantha as he picked her up into his arms.
The little girl gave her father a smile. "Good! Mommy and I were having a tea party!"
"Really?" He asked "would it be alright with you ladies if I joined you?"
Samantha's eyes widened in delight. "I'll go get some more tea!" She ran over to the otherside of the room to fill her teapot with invisible tea.
"She had another episode today." Killer Frost whispered to her husband.
"What happened?"
"It happened when she was drawing. Savitar… it was like she was possessed." Killer Frost's voice was quivering slightly. Whatever she saw scared her. "She drew another picture…" That caught the God of Speed's attention. Samantha was only four but due to her abilities she was developing at a slightly accelerated rate. Not only that but her connection to the Speed Force was finicky, it allowed Samantha to experience visions, visions of the past, present and future but not in any particular order and they happened at random times.
The first time Samantha had a vision her parents thought she was having a seizure. Her body shook uncontrollably, and her eyes turned pure white, charged with the familiar electrical currents from the Speed Force. At the same time her hand moved on its own resulting in her carving into her highchair three years ago. When she had finished she had passed out.
What she carved shocked both Savitar and Killer Frost, it was of Barry proposing to Caitlin Snow. She had seen deep into their pasts.
"What did she draw this time?"
Killer Frost looked over to their daughter before gesturing for her husband to follow her. Once they made it to the kitchen she pulled out a sheet of paper and passed it to the God of Speed.
He looked at the picture then to his wife. "What… What is this?"
It was a rather crude drawing, as to be expected of a four-year-old but they could make out who was in the picture. The picture showed The Flash cradling the lifeless body of Caitlin Snow. There were also a bunch of strange symbols coming out of the Flash's mouth dancing around the duo like a serpent. Savitar had seen those symbols before, during his imprisonment within the Speed Force, though he couldn't quite figure out what they were saying.
"It's my death…" Frost said with tears in her eyes. "The Flash is going to kill me."
Savitar put the picture down and cupped his wife's face. there was no possible way the Flash could kill her. Especially if Barry learns that Killer Frost is Caitlin Snow. "Hey, It's OK..." He said. "I promise you. Flash will never harm you. I can say with one hundred percent certainty he cannot touch you."
Frost shook her head tearfully. "I... I wish I could believe you..." Truth be told, ever since she woke up in Savitar's arms over a decade ago things have been odd to say the least. Mostly her memories she would see Savitar but it was strange since in some of her memories he was the Flash.
"Mommy! Daddy! The Tea is ready!" Samantha cried out from the next room. "Come on!"
"Come one Caitlin." Savitar said gently. "We have a Tea party to attend."
March 6 2018
Central City Barry's Apartment
Barry slowly opened his eyes and stared blankly at the empty half of his bed. The half Caitlin had occupied. The bed felt so much colder in the last few days than ever before. A few tears trickled down Barry's cheek as he gazed upon the empty bed. Caitlin was gone. He had no idea where she was, how she was doing or anything about their baby.
With a heavy sigh Barry sat up and ran his hands through his scraggly beard. He made his way to the bathroom and forced himself to take a cold shower. Twenty minutes later Barry gazed at his reflection with a razor in hand debating whether to shave or not. Ultimately, he chose not to.
He got dressed slowly and grabbed his bag off the floor and made his way to CCPD. Even though Caitlin was gone, he still had a job to do. Caitlin wouldn't want him to throw his entire life away because of her.
Three hours later Barry found himself staring blankly at his board. It used to be covered in anything even remotely related to the murder of Nora Allen, now it was practically empty aside from several pictures.
On the left was a picture of Godspeed and one of Ben with little red strings connected to every evil speedster they had encountered over the last year or so. There were also articles about all of August and Ben's exploits as heroes.
On the right was a rough sketch of Speed Demon. Other than that single image there was not much anyone knew about the black clad speedster. The only thing Barry was sure of was that there was some sort of connection between Speed Demon and Godspeed. And by extension there was a connection between the two speedsters and Barry and Caitlin.
This led him to the middle of the board where a picture of himself and Caitlin was pinned. Notes were all around it with only a few lines. Barry found himself staring at it just trying to figure out what it all meant.
"Hey Barry, I've got some more evidence from the…" Joe stopped when he saw the board. "Oh…"
Joe's presence snapped Barry back to reality. "Joe."
"You've been busy." Joe said looking at the board.
"Just looking for some sort of clue I must have missed." Barry sighed. "I have to find her Joe."
Joe felt like his heart was breaking for his son. Barry had been through more heartache than most people experience in their lifetimes. "We'll get her back son."
Barry looked Joe in the eye unable to hold back a single tear. "How?"
"I don't know…" Joe turned to Barry's board. "But staring at this board isn't going to help." Joe gently pushed the board out of Barry's field of view. "Come on son. We have work to do."
Barry nodded and took his dad's hand as Joe extended it to pull him back to his feet.
"Excuse me." Barry and Joe turned to see a young man standing in the doorway holding a small brown box. "I was told I could find a Mr. Barry Allen in here." He said reading the name on the package.
"That's me." Barry said as he got up to meet the delivery man half way.
"I have uh, I have a package for you." He handed the box to Barry and pulled a scanner off of his hip. "Just need you to sign here."
"Of course." Barry scribbled his name and briefly made eye contact with the delivery man. "Do I know you?" Barry asked a little confused. "I feel like we've met before."
"Not unless you've had more than this package delivered." The man responded. He handed Barry the package. "Alright, now that that is taken care of I must be on my way. The life of a Bike Courier never ends." With a small smile the delivery man turned around and left Barry's lab leaving Barry and Joe alone once again.
"I didn't order anything…" Barry said eyeing the package. That was when he noticed the return address, it was addressed from the loft he and Caitlin were living in.
"You need a minute?" Joe asked catching a glimpse of the parcel. Barry nodded silently. "OK, you do what you gotta do." Joe said before leaving Barry in his lab.
Barry took the parcel and sat at his desk. For a moment to contemplated just throwing the thing out but was curious as to why it was addressed from their loft. Steeling himself Barry opened the parcel revealing a box. After opening it Barry sat with a tiny flash drive in his hand, but it was not a normal flash drive. This one was identical to the flash drive he had received from Thawne when he needed the Reverse-Flash's help to beat Zoom. There was only one place Barry could go in order to access whatever was inside and in a flash of yellow electricity Barry was gone.
S.T.A.R. Labs
Dawn and Don Allen had just returned from their last patrol of the city. It had been eerily quiet for the last three weeks, ever since Godspeed's revelation. Each day they watched their mom and dad from a distance. There was no way they could deny that this was all their fault. Caitlin Snow was taken and they didn't even try to save her. Though they didn't want to admit it, a small part of them hoped that with Dr. Snow out of the way there was nothing stopping Barry and Iris from getting together.
"What do you think?" Dawn asked her brother.
"I don't know." Don replied. "This whole ordeal is insane. I mean, Mom's married to the Reverse-Flash's ancestor, and Dad is engaged to a woman speedster we have never heard of until recently."
"I mean what do you think we should do?"
"What can we do?" Don asked his sister. "She's gone, and we don't know where he took her?" Dawn knew what her twin was thinking. "Time will take it's natural course now."
"Don… we cannot just leave Dr. Snow to whatever fate has planned for her. It would break Dad."
"And supposed we even could get her back." Don fired back. "That mean's we won't be born making us Time Remnants and targets of HIM!" Don grunted. "Dad is supposed to be with mom. That is how it always should be." Don was clearly frustrated while Dawn was conflicted. All she really wanted was for their dad to be happy. If there was one thing she vaguely remembered about their father it was that he was hardly genuinely happy.
"Don, just use that caveman brain of yours and think for a minute. Can you honestly say Dad was happy?"
"Yes." Don replied without a second thought. "How could you say that."
Dawn was quiet for moment. "Everything changed when Dad crossed paths with Killer Frost." She said. "And when she died he just... shattered." Dawn thought back to how affected there dad was after that day, they were young, about eight, but the young West-Allen daughter could say with certainty that their father smiled less after that day. She couldn't even remember his laugh. "The way he smiled with Dr Snow... its completely different." At this point they had nothing as to where Caitlin was, at least until Dawn got an idea. In a flash of violet lightning she was in her street clothes and on her way out of the Cortex.
"Where are you going?" Don asked his sister
"To find Dr. Snow." Dawn replied. "There's only one person in this time who might have an Idea about where we can find her."
"And who would that be?"
"Gideon."
Central City
August 22 2036
Catherine Heart sighed as she left the hospital where she worked, today had been a long day and she was glad it was done. She was looking forward to spending the evening with her daughter. To be honest with herself Samantha's growing powers frightened Catherine Heart. The other day Samantha had another episode in which she drew a new picture that Catherine did not quite understand. It was an image of a man in a white and gold suit, behind him was her husband and her. The timing could not be worse since tomorrow was their son's birthday. The same child that has been missing for the last sixteen years. It absolutely broke Catherine's heart. When she was pregnant she so many hopes and dreams for the child she shared with her husband. She wanted him to grow up to be a hero, like his father.
"Watch out!" Catherine looked up just in time to see a teenager on a bicycle swerve away from her before catching a root and flipping over and sliding along the sidewalk.
"Are you OK?" She asked as she approached the young man. "I'm a doctor." She froze slightly when she got a good look at him. He looked a lot like her husband aside from his eyes and maybe his mouth, also his short black hair.
"I'm OK." The teenager said before grunting in pain clutching his wrist.
"Here, let me see it." Catherine took his hand and gently. She looked it over and found bruising on his right wrist. "Looks like you fractured your wrist."
"Oh geeze..." He sighed. "There goes my pitching career."
"Come with me." She said as she took his left hand and helped him to his feet. "I work at the hospital a block over. I can get an x-ray and at least a brace for your wrist."
"Sounds good." The teenager said. "But could we make this quick? I have a package I need to deliver."
"Once we're all set you should be able to go right back to work." Catherine said as they walked back the way she came. "By the way, I am Dr. Catherine Heart." She introduces herself. "What's you name?"
"Charlie." The teenager said. "Charlie McGrath."
About a half hour later they Charlie sat on an examination table while giving Catherine some required information.
"You live around here Charlie?" Catherine asked.
"Uh, no." He said simply. "I'm from Happy Harbor Rhode Island. Lived there my whole life. I'm just visiting Central City, checking out colleges."
"How'd you come to be a bike messenger?"
"It's a summer job." Charlie replied. "My family and I typically stay here in Central City for the summer."
"That sounds lovely." She said. "Alright I'll be right back with your x-ray."
"Thank You."
Catherine was back with his x-ray within a few minutes. "Alright the good news is the break in your wrist isn't that bad. You'll just have to wear a brace for the next two weeks."
"Any bad news?"
"No bad news." Catherine said with a smile. "You're free to go."
"Thank You Dr. Heart." Charlie said smiling back at her before he left.
Catherine watched him leave and as he did her smile dropped as she observed him. It could not be a coincidence that he looked so much like her and Savitar. And to meet him here so close to their son's birthday. She had to learn more about him. find out who he was. Especially if he could be their missing son.
Present Day
Time Vault
Dawn West-Allen stood in front of the AI from the future. She should have all the answers. "Hello Gideon."
-Good Morning Dawn West-Allen- Gideon responded and Dawn smiled. Her access to Gideon had not been altered. When Barry created Gideon he gave Dawn, Iris Don and Cisco equal levels of access as he, the creator had. It had really helped them all out in several pinches.
"Gideon, Can you share any information regarding Dr. Caitlin Snow?" She asked
-Of Course- The holographic face was replaced with several news articles until she saw one:
May 12 2018
Local Bio-Engineer Missing for Three Months presumed Dead
"Gideon is there anything regarding a Female Flash? Exclude anything involving The Tornado Twins and anything on March 13 2019."
-Zero References Found-
Dawn ran a hand through her hair. "Gideon, can you pull up a picture of Killer Frost." Immediately she was face to face Carla Tanhauser's mugshot, that was not what Dawn wanted. "Ok... Can you pull up a picture of Killer Frost from 2036?" This time a different Picture of Killer Frost came up right next to it was a Newspaper article.
October 19 2036
Killer Frost Killed by The Flash
Iris West-Allen
Dawn didn't bother to read the article she knew the gist of it. That was the day everything changed. "Gideon, pull up the most recent picture of Caitlin Snow you have. I want to run a side by side comparison of the two." Sure enough the AI pulled up Caitlin's photo putting it side by side with Killer Frost-2036. "Run facial recognition." It only took two seconds for Gideon to complete the Facial Recognition.
-100% Match- Gideon said. -It appears that Dr Caitlin Snow is Killer Frost. Though I must add both images also match the last known photo of Dr. Catherine Heart-
"What the hell happened to her?" Dawn asked herself. "Gideon, show me any and all information related to Killer Frost-2036." Dozens of photos and articles popped up Dawn absorbed all the information she could at high speed. There was not much of anything but one article caught her attention. "Gideon stop!"Gideon paused on the article Dawn had just seen.
January 20 2032
Breakthrough Discovered in Treatment of Childhood Cancer
The article talked about how a local scientist had found away to greatly impact if not completely remove cancer cells in children. and her picture looked eerily similar to Caitlin aside from her blue eyes and the several streaks of white in her hair and also the large belly. According to the picture her name was Catherine Heart Nee Frost. Digging further Dawn strived to discover all she could about this woman.
"Could this woman be Dr. Snow?" Dawn asked.
-It is possible-
"That would mean she's trapped in the future with no memory of who she is." Dawn was formulating a hypothesis. "Wait... her last name is Heart. Like August Heart." Realization crossed her face. "Oh my god... August really is their son..."
The sound of the door to the Time Vault opening snapped Dawn out of her train of thought immediately she shut down what she was doing. just as Barry walked in. "Oh, hi Dad..." She said sheepishly
"Hi," Barry's single word was met with an awkward silence. "Uh, what brings you here?" He asked.
"Just, doing some research." She said. "To try and find Dr. Snow." She added. There was no point to keep it from him. She had to let him know she was trying to help.
"Really? What did you find?" Barry inquired.
"Not sure yet, but I might have a clue." Dawn answered. "I have to dig a little deeper, but August might know something."
"I might need to have a chat with him in that case, Thanks Dawn." Barry was genuinely grateful she was trying to help. He even embraced her in a hug as a way of saying thanks.
"So uh, what brings you here dad?" She asked.
"I got this in the mail." He said holding up a small futuristic flash drive. "I don't know how or why but this is from Caitlin."
"So you need Gideon to access it."
"Yeah,"
"Do you want me to be here?" Dawn asked.
Barry was quiet for a moment. "I think I could use another person here."
Dawn offered up a smile. "Ok." She stood just behind her father allowing him to do what he needed.
Barry walked to the pedestal within Thawne's old Time Vault. Barry plugged the flash drive into the pedestal and was greeted with a holographic screen. It was a video, a video that brought Barry face to face with a video recording of Caitlin. Joy swelled in Barry's heart at the sight of his fiancé. He took in every feature moments before she spoke.
"Hi Barry." She said with a smile. Barry knew all to well that this was a sad smile. Caitlin's cheeks were slightly wet and her eyes were red and puffy. She looked like she wasn't sleeping either, as the evidence beneath her eyes showed. "I guess I should cut right to the chase…" Caitlin sighed. "Before you freak out me and our baby… we… we are safe…" Caitlin seemed to sniffle a little bit. "God, I wish I got the chance to say good bye, tell you 'I love you' one more time, or for you to be there for our baby, but… He… he's a monster unlike anything we've faced before. You'd be no match for him even with the help from all of our friends." Barry felt something akin to anger boiling inside of him as he watched Catlin struggle to hold back tears. How dare he make Caitlin cry. "Please… if you come for me, you'll all just end up throwing away your lives… and I could never live with myself if that were to happen. I've lost so much I don't know if I can lose you Barry. I guess what I want… no what I need to say is this…" Barry sat there flabbergasted. How could Caitlin not have faith in him? How could she not want him to come for her? Then again when ever Caitlin had been kidnapped in the past she was very adamant that Barry doesn't rescue her. Heck in most of those situations she'd managed to get herself out of trouble or Cisco managed to get to her. Honestly Barry felt his anger boiling but he could not figure out where to direct it. At Caitlin for her lack of faith? No, he couldn't do that to her. At himself for his inability to protect her? A little. Barry found that most of his rage was on Speed Demon. The monster who abducted Caitlin and was doing god knows what to her and their baby. Anger swelled up inside Barry and in a fury, he punched the wall, several times, before putting a hole into it. Barry paused and looked down at his bleeding hand which had jagged pieces of metal sticking out of it.
"Dad!"
"Damn it…" he whispered to himself.
February 13 2018
S.T.A.R. Labs
Godspeed let go of him and ran for Caitlin. Barry urged his body to move but it was not listening to him. It was almost like his body didn't want to save Caitlin. He watched as Iris's grip on Caitlin's shoulder tightened while his fiancé moved a hand to protect her stomach.
From Barry's perspective it seemed as if for every step forward he took Godspeed moved ten and he moved thirty backward. He just could not close the gap between them. All he could do was share one terrified look with Caitlin before she closed her eyes. That was when it happened.
Milliseconds before Godspeed reached Caitlin there was a light and an intense heat. A black figure cloaked in fire came out of nowhere grabbing Godspeed by the neck of his suit and driving him headfirst into one of the monitors.
Barry, along with Godspeed, was frozen in shock at the sight of the newcomer, Speed Demon. Without seemingly breaking a stride Speed Demon ran for Caitlin and scooped her into his arms bridal style.
He looked at Godspeed who was barely getting up and then turned to Barry. The Flash felt like Speed Demon's fiery gaze bored into his soul. An instant later Speed Demon was gone, taking Caitlin with him leaving only a scorched floor and a trail of crackling black lightning.
"CAITLIN!" Barry screamed her name to empty air as the world caught up to him and Godspeed.
"What?!" Iris asked shocked.
Everyone was trying to figure out what had just happened but quickly they all fell unto Godspeed who was still on the ground.
"No…" Godspeed groaned as he pushed himself back up. "No, no, no, no no…"
Immediately Cisco blasted him pining the white clad speedster to the ground. "What did you just do to Caitlin?" He demanded.
Godspeed didn't respond instead he gave team Flash a smirk. While still restrained by Cisco's power Wally and Don Grabbed him by his shoulders and an instant later Kid Flash and Don had thrown Godspeed into one of the specially designed cells.
Barry just stood in the middle of Caitlin's lab completely shell-shocked. Sure, they caught Godspeed, but Caitlin was gone. His fiancé was gone. The love of his life was gone. The mother of his child was gone. His child was gone.
Speed Demon just did what no other villain was able to do, completely break Barry.
Medical Lab
Barry sat on the gurney while Iris wrapped his hand. "You need to be more careful Barry. I'm no where near as good at patching you up as Caitlin is…"
"You're doing fine." Barry reassured her. "Besides my hand will be ready to go in about an hour anyway."
Iris felt horrible seeing her best friend like this. "Mind if I sit with you?" She asked. "Listen Barry… I know your hurt… but you can't-"
"She told me not to save her." Barry said. "I don't know how she did it but Caitlin managed to get a message to us."
"Barry..."
"How could she say that..." Barry wanted to cry.
"It's because she's worried about you Barry." Iris wrapped her arm around her best friend. "She can't bare the thought of anything bad happening to you."
"So what? I'm supposed to sit here and do nothing?" Barry retorted. "Iris… I have to get her back. I need to get her back."
"And we will Barry." She assured him. "Everyone is utilizing everything we have at our disposal to try and locate her."
Cortex
Cisco put on his goggles and touched Caitlin's lab coat for the third time that day. Everyday for the last three weeks he'd been trying to vibe his best friend but wasn't having too much luck. He'd get glimpses of her but they offered him no information at all.
Cisco found himself standing in what looked like Caitlin's Lab, he couldn't be too sure. She was sleeping peacefully and looked to be completely unharmed. It was so different to when she was kidnapped by Zoom. Back then Cisco saw her frightened, tired and malnourished. Here she looked like everything was alright.
"Cait-" He tired to call out her name but a strong hand grabbed him by the neck and lifted him up.
Next thing Cisco knew he was being thrown across the cortex violently.
"Cisco!" Wally was beside him in an instant. "You OK? What just happened?"
Cisco rubbed his head where it had whacked the floor. "I… I vibed Caitlin. More-so than before."
"And?"
"I don't know… Something threw me out of my vibe." Cisco said rubbing his neck.
"That must have been Speed Demon." Don said. "We know he's the one who took Dr. Snow, but we just don't know where or when."
"I think Ben once mentioned Speed Demon is tethered to his original time." Wally said.
"That may be true, but we have no idea when that Speed Demon is from. We know so little about him we can only roughly guess when he took her nevermind where. And by rough guess we mean at least a fifty year time frame for his origination point. We miss that point and Dr. Snow could either not be there or she could have aged dramatically." Dawn explained.
"OK, but we still don't even know why he took her." Joe spoke up. "If he wanted to kill her, he would have-" Joe stopped when he saw Barry and Iris entering the cortex. "I mean you have to think there's a reason for all of this."
"There is no reason with Speed Demon." Don said. "He is malevolence made flesh. Just pure rage, destruction and death."
"But-" Dawn started but she suddenly had a different thought. "There was something about her message." Dawn said thinking hard.
"What do you mean." Cisco asked. Dawn had shared the fact Caitlin had somehow sent them a message, though she did not disclose any of the information on it since it was for Barry and no one else.
"How did Caitlin get us a message?" Barry reiterated the question out loud.
"There has to be some kind of clue in that message." Dawn said. "Some hint as to where it came from."
"The return address was our loft." Barry said "but it wasn't postmarked. It didn't go through the proper delivery system."
"That bike courier." Joe said. "He has to be involved! If he delivered that package directly to you he had to sign in at the precinct."
"I think it might be best if we all listen to the message." Iris said speaking up. "Maybe fresh eyes and ears might pick something up." She turned to Barry looking for reassurance to which he nodded.
"Agreed." Barry said. "It might be cramped but I think everyone can fit in the time Vault."
"So what now?" Wally asked "Even if we find out where Caitlin is Speed Demon has shown us multiple times he's no joke.
Barry spoke up quickly. "Get a message to The Legends, It would be safer to time travel with a time ship, also contact Oliver. And Kara. We're going to need all the help we can get." Barry turned to make his way out of the cortex.
"Wait where are you going?" Joe asked
Barry stopped. "Like I said, to get Caitlin back we are going to need all the help we can get." He thought about what Dawn had said. August, or rather Ben knows something.
The Pipeline
While the rest of the team was busy dissecting Caitlin's message Barry found himself standing on the other side of the glass that separated him from Godspeed It wasn't too long ago they were in the same situation what with Barry locking Ben up following their first interaction. It pained Barry that his first impression was correct.
Godspeed, stared back at Barry with the face of Ben. "Took you long enough to visit me Flash. I didn't think you had it in you to meet me face to face." Barry kept silent. "You know, this kind of reminds me of our original meeting pops."
Barry clenched his fists in anger. He took a deep breath before he opened his mouth to talk "I don't want to be here any longer than I have to." Barry said quietly. "I'm here because I need your help to save Caitlin.
"And why would I do that?" Godspeed asked. "I thought I was clear that I've been against you from the beginning. Did you hit your head before coming here?"
"You said you had your memories altered to better sell your 'lie'" Barry said. "But your DNA test shows you are my son." Barry looked at Ben when he said that. "There's no way a transmogrifier can alter DNA."
"That is correct." Ben said. "It is quite nice that I don't have to keep up with the charade anymore, get to the point Flash."
"I believe there's still good in you. You said so yourself. Your memories were altered. Who's to say 'Ben' is who you really are and this is the charade." Ben seemed annoyed by the comment. "Some part of you had to care about us as much as Caitlin and I cared about you."
"Maybe." Godspeed said leaning against his cell wall. "That could very well be the case. However, if I did know, I most certainly would not tell you."
"I don't believe that Ben." Barry replied. "I truly believe that, despite whatever you say, you are my son and… I want to help you."
"Help me?" Ben asked in a mocking tone before he started chuckling. "How exactly can you help me? You don't even know me! You have no idea about all the shit I've been through."
"True, but that's because you won't open up."
Ben got up and stood in front of the glass separating him from the Flash. "You may be biologically my father Flash but you were never there." He seemed to seethe. "The only one who tried to help me was Savitar. He's more of my father than you ever could be. I'm surprised you haven't been able to put everything together yet Flash. Why all of this is happening. "
"So is that why Dawn and Don call you the Heir of Savitar?" Godspeed was silent for a moment before responding.
"Yes and no." he said. "For the longest time I didn't know who I was, and I was nearly driven mad trying to achieve the impossible until I met Savitar." Barry listened. "He took me in. treated me as if I was his son. He even promised to give me what I truly wanted."
"Which is?"
"It's pointless to even try to explain it Flash. You cannot possibly comprehend what I feel or lack thereof."
"This is a waste of time." Barry turned around and began to walk away. "I thought you wanted to be a hero. And I was offering you the chance to do what I've always wanted. Save your mom."
Godspeed was silent and just before Barry hit the button to close off the pipeline he started to laugh. "Hahahaha! You want me to help save her from Speed Demon? Hahaha! You really don't know what's going on here." Barry stopped and looked up. "See, I know how your stories end Flash. I am your greatest failure. If you let me out I can promise you Dr. Snow will be dead in your arms. Wouldn't be the first time."
"What do you mean?"
"Ask your kids."
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